John Cowan writes: > In order for the attachment to propagate with the work, the license has to > specify that it can't be removed, though. So, for example, you can't > attach it effectively to the GPL, because the GPL only says the GPL must be > preserved, and any additional terms that restrict the user's powers (in > this case the power to remove the attachment) can be deleted by anyone.
It's more like the "front-cover texts" and "back-cover texts" in the GFDL, I guess. "... with the Front-Cover Texts being 'yay Republicans boo Democrats' ..." / "... with the Front-Cover Texts being 'yay Democrats boo Republicans' ..." Or maybe like the charityware notes in, say, vim, except with a discouragement to work with a particular group rather than an encouragement? In the old days I think I remember how much people appreciated that FOSS was collaboratively developed by people who had enormous disagreements with each other in other ways. Sometimes it seemed like a point of pride or fascination -- "sir, I detest what you say (or do), but I run your code and you run my code", to misquote a misquotation of Voltaire. -- Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> | Qué empresa fácil no pensar http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | en un tigre, reflexioné. 8F08B027A5DB06ECF993B4660FD4F0CD2B11D2F9 | -- Borges, "El Zahir" _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
